How to give a group of users rights to administer distribution groups in Exchange 2003

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Environment:

  • Exchange: Server 2003 Standard SP2 x86 + Exchange 2003 Standard
  • Domain Controllers: Active Directory, Windows 2000 Functional Level, hosted on Server 2008 Enterprise x86
  • Workstations run Windows XP Pro with Outlook 2003 (greater majority)

Situation:

I have a few users that want to manage their own distribution groups through their Outlook client. How can I give these users rights to add/remove from these specific Distribution Groups from Outlook?

Best Answer

You could:

  1. Create an OU for the particular distribution lists.
  2. Create a security group for the users.
  3. Add the users to the security group.
  4. Use Delegation of Control Wizard on the OU to grant "Modify the membership of a group" permission to the security group.
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